Re: It does

Post #133,623 by pwhysall 1/5/04 3:00:02 AM Reply	Re: It does if the GUI doesn't load and sticks her in a CLI prompt. What about if WXP bluescreens? If she wants to install something and I have to introduce her to chmod to mark the file downloaded as executable. Why would this complete novice be installing ANYTHING? Aren't you available? If she installs something and the RPM library messes up, or the app needs an older library to work and refuses to work with the newer library that is installed. See answer above. If she installs a new app, and cannot find the icon to launch it because it is a missing feature of the OS. See answer above. And WTF? If she needs to install something, and has to compile it, and encounters an error compiling it. I have to teach her how to use the compiler, edit source code and make files, etc. See answer above. What the HELL? You're looking for excuses again, and finding them. "Won't install Linux because the missus can't operate a compiler" indeed. How very 1996. It was true then. It isn't true now. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #133,624 by deSitter 1/5/04 3:19:23 AM Reply	rofl LRPD "How very 1996" Mornin' Pete, right on time. How's the coffee? Norm is perhaps the ultimate pessimist. Any offered solution or idea instantly generates 1000 "can't" in his mind. It's an extraordinary level of creativity. "Breathe Norm!" "I can't - I don't trust the air, it might burst my lungs, pollution, etc." "But Norm, you'll die if you don't breathe..." "I know, but I can't. There might be poisonous gnomes hiding behind the furniture and I can't take that chance." "But Norm, what difference does it make if you're poisoned by foul smelling gnomes vs. not breathing at all?" "Well as long as I don't breathe, there's always a chance that I won't need oxygen." "Norm, I checked behind the furniture and there are no gnomes. You can breathe now." "Well, I'd better not, someone else with respiratory problems may burst through the front door and need all the oxygen they can get..." "Norm, I locked the door on my way in..." "Well, what if there is radioactive dust coming up from the basement?" "Norm, I have a Geiger counter where my spleen used to be - and you're looking sort of cyanotic..." "If I breathe, how do I know that I'll be able to take a full breath? I'd rather just get it over with, and besides, I'm not allowed to breathe before noon." "Norm, it's 3 PM." "But it's before noon in Hawaii!" .... "NORM GODDAMN IT BREATHE!!" "Well, maybe just once..." "BREATHE!!!!" "[gasp choke]" "Now isnt' that better?" "Well I suppose so, but what if..." -drl
Post #133,650 by admin 1/5/04 11:26:41 AM Reply	Funny, but... How's he talking if he isn't breathing...? ;-) Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #133,654 by drewk 1/5/04 11:42:03 AM Reply	Hear that clickety-clickety sound? === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #133,660 by bepatient 1/5/04 11:45:45 AM Reply	I thought that was Hook's crocodile. bother If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} It goes in, it must come out._{Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #133,663 by admin 1/5/04 12:06:31 PM Reply	While he's standing there in the same room? Frog, meet dissection table. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #134,428 by orion 1/8/04 11:29:15 PM Reply	Very funny but if I believed that I'd buy an air tank and breathe from that. Then when it emptied switch air tanks. Or get a gask mask with a good filter. *"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"*
Post #134,454 by pwhysall 1/9/04 3:27:27 AM Reply	Microsoft Air Tank XP? Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]

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